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You are here: Home / Videos / Acute cholecystitis: To drain or not to drain? That is the question

Acute cholecystitis: To drain or not to drain? That is the question

 

This talk was presented at the 2018 SAGES Meeting/16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by Marian P McDonald during the Masters Biliary: Help! Severe Acute Cholecystitis – How to Recognize, And What To Do! on April 14 2018


Keyword(s): abdominal pain, abdominal wall, academic institution, acute care surgeon, administrator, anesthesia performance status, antibiotics, antiplatelet therapy, app, ASA class, ASA-PS, ascites, bailout, BDI, bedside, bleeding, bridging procedure, burnout, catheter, CCI, Charleston comobidity index, cholecystectomy, cholecystostomy tube, cirrhosis, clinical status, common bile duct injury, community hospital, complications, COSIC, critical view, CT scan, culture of safety in cholecystectomy, cystic duct, diagnostic laparoscopy, drain, drainage procedure, E.R., elderly, emergency room, endoscopic, endoscopic ultrasound, energy devices, ERCP, EUS, experience, flowchart, Foley, gallbladder perforation, gastrointestinal, general surgeon, GI, grasper, guidelines, healthcare resources, ICD-9 codes, interventional radiology, IR, Jackson Pratt drain, JP drain, judgement, laparoscope, laparoscopic surgeon, liver, liver disease, liver transplant, malignancy, masters biliary, MI, minimally invasive surgery, MIS, morbidity, mortality, myocardial infarction, nasobiliary tube, nose, O.R. staff, observation, organ support, PA, percutaneous approach, percutaneous cholecystostomy, percutaneous cholecystostomy tube, physical exam, physician assistant, postop complications, postoperative complications, preop, preoperative, radiographic findings, readmission, recommendations, residents, right upper quadrant pain, RUQ pain, scrub tech, sepsis, severe acute cholecystitis, skills, solo practice, source control, Southern Surgical Association, supportive care, Tokyo cholecystitis grading criteria, Tokyo guidelines, transgastric, transhepatic drainage, transverse colon, ultrasound, urgent drainage, vascular injury, wall thickening, wire

Culture of safety in cholecystectomy–3:01 J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A 2017

Difficult cholecystectomy–3:29

Why do a pre-op drainage procedure?–4:16 HPB 2013

2018 Tokyo guidelines–5:02

3 major factors make up the recommendations–6:26 J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Sci 2018

Charleston Comorbidity Index–6:43

ASA-PS scores–7:19

Tokyo grading severity–7:30

Flowchart for the management of acute cholecystitis–8:19

Transhepatic drainage–12:30

Endoscopic or EUS drainage–12:45 GIE 2008

Cholecystostomy tube–14:02

Timing of lap chole post-op perc drainage–14:50

Perc cholecystostomy–17:02

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09/18/2018
Learning Themes
HPB / Biliary
Sources
2018 Annual Meeting
Masters Level
300
Video Authors
McDonald M
Video Institutions
Saint Lukes University Health Network--Allentown PA

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